"What is happening now has happened before, and what will happen in the future has happened before, because God makes the same things happen over and over again." King Solomon

When will we awaken and realize that resistance to liberty is futile because liberty was God's purpose for man from the beginning. Above, King Solomon speaks of the futility of trying to escape from reality, and below C.S. Lewis's words show that in several thousand years man is still trying to escape reality.

 We do have hope as Americans because we are destined to overcome tyranny and live as free men.

“Two wars necessitated vast curtailments of liberty, and we have grown, though grumblingly, accustomed to our chains. The increasing complexity and precariousness of our economic life have forced Government to take over many spheres of activity once left to choice or chance. Our intellectuals have surrendered first to the slave-philosophy of Hegel, then to Marx, finally to the linguistic analysts.

As a result, classical political theory, with its Stoical, Christian, and juristic key-conceptions (natural law, the value of the individual, the rights of man), has died. The modern State exists not to protect our rights but to do us good or make us good — anyway, to do something to us or to make us something. Hence the new name ‘leaders’ for those who were once ‘rulers’. We are less their subjects than their wards, pupils, or domestic animals. There is nothing left of which we can say to them, ‘Mind your own business.’ Our whole lives are their business.
I write ‘they’ because it seems childish not to recognize that actual government is and always must be oligarchical. Our effective masters must be more than one and fewer than all. But the oligarchs begin to regard us in a new way.”– C. S. Lewis
(1898-1963), British novelist
Source: Willing Slaves of the Welfare State, first published in The Observer on July 20, 1958

  We owe it to posterity to stand and fight those who have enslaved us and then to teach them how and why we allowed it to happen so that we will at last truly be free men.